Writing Strategies RAFT InteractiveRAFT RAFT is a writing strategy that helps you understand your role as a writer, the audience you will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic you will be writing about. By using this strategy, you can write creatively, consider a topic from a different perspective, and gain practice writing for different audiences.
R ole of the Writer: Who or what are you as the writer? A pilgrim? A soldier? The President?
A udience: To whom are you writing? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper?
F ormat: In what format are you writing? A letter? A poem? A speech?
T opic and strong verb: What are you writing about? Why? What's the subject or the point?
What to Do –…assume a Role
–…consider the Audience,–…write in a particular Format
–…examine a Topic from a relevant perspective
RAFT InteractiveRAFT
RAFT is a writing strategy that helps you understand your role as a writer, the audience you will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic you will be writing about. By using this strategy, you can write creatively, consider a topic from a different perspective, and gain practice writing for different audiences.
R ole of the Writer: Who or what are you as the writer? A pilgrim? A soldier? The President?
A udience: To whom are you writing? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper?
F ormat: In what format are you writing? A letter? A poem? A speech?
T opic and strong verb: What are you writing about? Why? What's the subject or the point?
What to Do
–…assume a Role
–…consider the Audience,–…write in a particular Format
–…examine a Topic from a relevant perspective
Example
RAFTs for Language Arts
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Huck Finn
Jim
Letter
What I Learned on the Trip
Billy Colman
Family
Eulogy
My Love for Little Ann and Old Dan
Comma
Sentences
Thank You Note
Glad I Could Be of Service
Prepositional Phrase
Author
Persuasive Speech
How I Can Help You Express Yourself
Juliet
Self
Diary
My Short Romance
Grendl
Beowulf
Letter
You Need to See My Side of the Story
Example
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Squanto
Other Native Americans
Pictographs
I can help the inept settlers
Band Member
Other Band Members
Demo Tape
Here’s how it goes
Positive Numbers
Negative Numbers
Dating Ad
Opposites Attract
Rational Numbers
Irrational Numbers
Song
Must you go on forever?
Decimals
Fractions
Poem
Don’t you get my point?
Perimeter
Area
Diary Entry
How your shape affects me
Monet
Van Gogh
Letter
I wish you’d shed more light on the subject!
Joan of Arc
Self
Soliloquy
To recant, or not to recant; that is the question
Tree
Urban Sprawl
Editorial
My life is worth saving
Thoreau
Public of his day
Letter to the Editor
Why I moved to the pond
Young Chromosome
Experienced Chromosome
Children’s Book
What becomes of us in mitosis?